The Imaginative Landscape

[Squida]

How did people who did this context go?
Personally I found it a bit challenging.  

prompt:
'We live in a specific time and place yet. simultaneously, we experience and internal life that is not limited in this way.'

[spontaneouscombustion]

can't say I wasn't happy with how I went...considering I hadn't even written one practice piece for context

[Dlay]

I find it confusing. I have no idea what to write and I wrote wierd stuff that doesn't seem to answer the prompt. I am so screwed now...probably got like C - C+ for english. So depressing, coz i think i cant get into my course because of that context thingy.

[olivia]

i thought that the imag. landscape prompt was very odd. THinking back on it I guess it is kinda striaghtforward but jsut kind of confusing and completely unexpected. So different to the practices i'd done. NOT HAPPY

[spizaa #5]

yeah it was a bit odd on the surface.
i think vcaa made it tough to make sure that kids who rote learned their essay copped it

[sophapoo]

I agree that it was very weird, unlike anything else we'd all seen. But i think this prooves to be a good thing, as we all seemed struggle that will show when the marks are moderated.

[silva]

they moderate essay marks in english for each topic/text?

[hxleong]

*facepalm*
It's going to bring my mark down like 2 grades =[

We did Island and Fly Away Peter and I sat there wishing that our teachers actually taught Fly Away Peter (we did it in a week and I don't have a clue what it's about)
My essay just sucked.

[Noblesse]

I know my old teacher was really unhappy with it, apparently she is going to complain to VCAA.

Get your teachers to write to VCAA, it can make a difference!

[TonyHem]

I agree that it was very weird, unlike anything else we'd all seen. But i think this prooves to be a good thing, as we all seemed struggle that will show when the marks are moderated.

Your exam mark doesn't get moderated. Different novels, different contexts are just options, they can't go "i'll give an extra 5% to everyone that did this novel". What if a bunch of bad schools chose a certain context and a bunch of good schools chose a different one? There's no reason to "moderate" the marks because a lot of people did worse on one context/novel as there could be many reasons behind it etc etc.

[MikeOxlong]

wat was the prompt??

[spizaa #5]

my english teacher, who is an assessor, told me straight after the exam that they will mark it easier because the topic was terrible.
i based my essay about the one way relationship between the internal/external.
i.e: the physical may remain constant, but psychologically you are constantly changing
and said it couldnt go the other way:
1. due to social factors FAP: jim "knew it wasnt his place to make an opening", ashley"owned the land", but sanctuary allows them to digress beyond social barriers and at each end of the boat "they held a balance" - real life: priest n stockbroker only come on common ground if they are in a jury room (hypothetical)
2. when meaning is challenged. FAP: eric's existential question "Whos gonna look after me" & real life: copernicus' books banned by roman catholic church
3. due to upbringing/cultural influences (first home landscape): FAP: ashley quite liked the ruggedness of the qld landscape - gave a sense of being "unfinished" - childhood in aus. but his grandfather thinks english landscape ought to be imposed on australia "via hedge rows and orderly fields".
4. physical changes - provoke nothing inside as it is part of the human condition to resist change (FLY AWAY PETER= jim and the bi plane "nothing suggested flight" "monstrous cage") - 3/3/38 - first discovery of oil in saudi arabia...how did devout muslims feel about htier nation turning into a hub of productivity?

[haneybee]

is it a possibility that the Imaginative Landscape prompt was the hardest as it was the highest-scoring one last year? (only by like .1 mind you.. =S )

even people who did other contexts said ours was by far the hardest.... *sighh*

[haneybee]

is it a possibility that ours was the hardest prompt due to the fact that it was the highest-scoring one last year? (only by .1 mind you..)

even people doing other contexts said ours was by far the hardest.... *sighhhh*

[tripz]

Very sophisticated one but the Imaginative Landscape is probably the best context in my opinion.